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Bu-lat-lat (boo-lat-lat) verb: to
search, probe, investigate, inquire; to unearth facts
Vol. V, No.
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SALUNGGUHIT
Crucifying the People
By Jasper
Almirante/
Bulatlat
The Philippines ushers
in the Christian calendar’s Holy Week this year with 13 activist leaders
killed in Central Luzon alone since January. These killings, in which
state forces are invariably pointed to as the perpetrators, have taken
place at a time when the people are in the direst of straits. The killings
of prominent personalities who have taken the cudgels for their legitimate
demands for justice and good governance are an added burden as they are
intended to terrorize the people into accepting things as they are. The
people are made to put up with these acts of terror like a man headed for
Golgotha to be crucified. Benefiting from the protection of the status quo
against any form of legitimate dissent are the ruling elite and their
imperialist masters.
Salungguhit literally means to
underline; figuratively, to
underscore or highlight.
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